tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post1465651990023287560..comments2015-03-03T11:57:53.323-05:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Afraid of Commitment?Dinahnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-43192338726031060162013-05-28T10:32:41.627-04:002013-05-28T10:32:41.627-04:00Christinepas-- if you&#39;re still out there, can ...Christinepas-- if you&#39;re still out there, can you shoot me an email at shrinkrapblog at gmail dot com ? I would like to chat.<br />DinahDinahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-88723768685646018762009-10-08T23:45:55.822-04:002009-10-08T23:45:55.822-04:00Hm... interesting timing...
I&#39;m a PA student,...Hm... interesting timing...<br /><br />I&#39;m a PA student, and while I was doing my psych rotation two weeks ago, my preceptor (a psychiatrist) noticed that I hadn&#39;t quite been myself. She asked me a bunch of questions about what was up, I answered a bit too honestly, I guess, and she and another psychiatrist at the site had me involuntarily admitted for suicidal ideations WITHOUT plan or intent. Honestly, I didn&#39;t think I could be involuntarily hospitalized for that. I was released yesterday.<br /><br />It was pretty darn weird to go straight from treating psych patients to being a psych patient. Awkward.<br /><br />Anyway, what are the rules for involuntary admissions? Does it vary state to state? I&#39;m in NY and it took two psychiatrists&#39; evaluations to make me &quot;involuntary status.&quot; I&#39;ve never looked into what the guidelines and rules are for that sort of thing...<br /><br />(PS - I&#39;m doing fine. I&#39;m bipolar and I get that depressed multiple times per year, so I thought/think the whole ordeal was rather silly. My mood has partially improved spontaneously, so now I have outpatient appointments, I&#39;ll start an MAOI next week, and I&#39;m trying to get my schooling back together. Eek.)ChristinePAShttp://mindonmedicine.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-63085001687572530232009-10-08T04:53:20.765-04:002009-10-08T04:53:20.765-04:00Thanks anonymous, you nailed the situation precise...Thanks anonymous, you nailed the situation precisely.<br /><br />Thanks to severe rebound insomnia from tapering my remaining psych med, I couldn&#39;t articulate my thoughts very well. But it was so frustrating to see what I had said be totally misinterpreted.<br /><br />I am sorry you had to go through having suicidal ideation alone and I hope you are doing better.<br /><br />AAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-47704289632425388032009-10-08T02:48:40.532-04:002009-10-08T02:48:40.532-04:00I think AA&#39;s point was about the possibility o...I think AA&#39;s point was about the possibility of being hospitalized for having suicidal ideation, not for an attempt. I can tell you that I avoided telling two different pdocs about ideation, even in the one case where I was working on a fail-safe plan, because I didn&#39;t want to be hospitalized. It was hard to go through that alone.<br /><br />A while ago I got up the courage to tell my current pdoc about the past experiences and then some more recent ones. But it feels safer to have this conversation when you aren&#39;t currently having ideation, and thus can&#39;t be hospitalized for reporting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-5315412345643748002009-10-07T00:39:07.482-04:002009-10-07T00:39:07.482-04:00Hospitalize? Require us to hospitalize? Not Washin...Hospitalize? Require us to hospitalize? Not Washington. In Wa. State it means send the patient to the ER after instructing them on what they will need to say, and what kind of evidence of insurance they will need. Hospitalize is not something a psychiatrist can do here. We have county designated mental health professionals whose job it is to find ways to justify keeping a patient out of the hospital. Like, &quot;The gun is only .38 caliber, and he only has 3 bullets. He couldn&#39;t be seriously at risk.&quot;<br /><br />How did we psychiatirsts allow ourselves to be thrust into the role of responsibility for the behavior of others anyway? Sounds more like what they did in Soviet Russia. We should stick to treating mental illness. Like that isn&#39;t enough of a challenge in itself.<br /><br />Marsha Linehan makes a pretty good case for the idea that we delay suicide at best, even when we can &quot;hospitalize.&quot;moviedochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03617061594621924756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-37124958144104787132009-10-06T19:22:28.851-04:002009-10-06T19:22:28.851-04:00Um, Roy, that wasn&#39;t your puppy (I don&#39;t t...Um, Roy, that wasn&#39;t your puppy (I don&#39;t think). I&#39;d never post a photo of your actual puppy, you don&#39;t know what kind of puppy-poachers lurk on the internet waiting for the moment.<br /><br />I googled bishon puppy in images, and borrowed this one. Is that your rug?Dinahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.com